SYLVIADJE. 



INSESSOfiES. 



DENT1ROSTRES. 



SYLVIADjE. 



THE BLUE-THROATED WARBLER. 



Phcenicura Suecica. 



Motacilla Suecica, Blue-throated Robin, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. 



p. 244. 

 Phcenicura Redstart, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 195. 



Sylvia Warbler, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 104. 



Phcenicura GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Ficedula Redstart, EYTON, Earer Brit. Birds, p. 9. 



Sylvia Bee-Jin Gorge bleue, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 216. 



PHOENICDRA. Generic Cliaracters. Beak slender and nearly straight, 

 compressed towards the point, slightly deflected and emarginated. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, oval, pierced in a membrane, and partly concealed by the 

 feathers of the forehead. Wings of moderate size ; the first quill very 

 short ; the second equal in length to the sixth ; the third, fourth, and 

 fifth, nearly equal, but the fourth the longest. Tail more or less red in 

 all the species. Legs with the tarsus lengthened and slender, longer than 

 the middle toe ; outer toes nearly equal in length. 



